Improvement in ring for spinning-machine



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OSEPH WATTLES; or CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Letters Patent No. 83,426, dated October 27, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN RING- FOR SPINNING MACHINEL To all persons to whom these presents may come Be itlrnown that I, J osErH W. VVATTLES, of Canton, of the county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rings for Ring and Traveller Spinning- Frames; and do hereby declare the same to be fully' described in the following Specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top View, and

Figure 2, a transverse section of a spinning frame ring provided with my invention, in the carrying out of which, I construct the ring with a trough or channel to extend around it, on its inner side, and to hold oil, for the purpose of lubricating the traveller and that or those surfaces against which it maybe borne while it may be revolving on the ring-flange.

The ordinary process of oiling a traveller hasbeen to put the lubricating-material on the top of the ring,

such having to be done once in every three or four hows, or thereabouts, the period being governed by the size of the yarn, the speed of the frame, and. by.

other circumstances, the frame being generally stopped or not in operation at the time. As heretofore made, the ring willnot retain such oil, it being liable to flow down upon and from it. I

With my invention, however, the traveller becomes self-oiling) for in a stoppage of the frame so as to suf; ficieutly lessen the draught of the yarn on the traveller,

the latter will drop down and enter or extend into the oil in the trough, so that when the traveller may next be put in operation, itwill be caused to lubricate the flange of the ring.

In the drawings, A denotes the ring, a the flange or part on which the traveller runs, and b is the oiltrough, the latter being shown as arranged next to the inner side of the ring.

There may be such a trough on each side of the ring, and, if desirable, the two grooves or troughs may b0 connected by one or more holes or passages, so as to allow the oil to flow from one groove into the other, and stand at one level-in the two.

I mention these changes as so many modes in which I have contemplated the application of my invention.

I have found that collections of fibrous waste in the oiling-trough or troughs, or in the -traveller, are beneficial, as they frequently serve to transmit the oil to the traveller while it may be in operation.

I do not claim a ring as grooved in the manner as represented inthe United States patent No. 66,104, and to operate with a bar projecting across the ring, the said bar being at its opposite ends inserted insuch groove, which, in order to keep the bar in connection with it, has to be capped by a ring; nor do 1' herein intend to claim anything as Shown and described in Letters Patent No.-24,681, granted to me.

In neither of the devices shown in the said patents is there an oiling-groove arranged on the inner side of the ring, and below its traveller-supporter or flange, so as to cause, on a stoppage of the traveller, its lower part to fall into the trough or groove, as is the case with my improvement.

I, therefore, claim my improved ring, as made with the traveller-supporter or rail (1, and the oiling-trough 1), arranged as represented in the accompanying drawin'gs, and as hereinbefore described, such being so as to cause the traveller, on ceasing to revolve on the supporter, to dip its lower part into such groove, as and for the purpose specified, when such groove may be supplied with a lubricating-fluid.

JOSEPH W. WATILES.

Witnesses: R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr. 

